This table displays the selected game’s current values on four BGG outcomes (UsersRated, Average, GeekRating, Weight) along with my predictive model(s) estimated values for where these games are likely to end up.
Published | ID | Name | Type | UserRatings | Average | GeekRating | Weight |
2021 | Current | 218 | 7.69 | 5.69 | 3.23 | ||
Estimated | 400 | 7.92 | 5.94 | 3.23 |
To see more information about the game on boardgamegeek, click on the game’s ID or Name to go straight to the game’s profile page.
Description |
Steamwatchers unfolds in a frozen Europe, broken by an ice age that followed a brutal water level increase. In those hostile conditions, nomadic clans struggle to survive with the regular and puzzling outbreak of steam columns everywhere on the continent. These columns are a testament to intense subterranean heat sources. They free earth from the grasp of ice and allow mankind to grow food once again. These oases of heat are vital for survival...and, unfortunately, only transient. To make things worse, a strange sickness spreads around them: The Bane. It affects both mind and body, and to this day, no cure has been found. Handling it is necessary to the survival of the clans. |
Information on the game’s designers, artists, families, mechanics and categories from BGG.
Published | ID | Name | Publisher(s) | Designer(s) | Artist(s) | Categories | Families | Mechanics |
2021 | Mythic Games | Marc Lagroy | David Demaret | Fighting | Continents: Europe | Area Majority / Influence | ||
Stéphane Gantiez | Miniatures | Theme: Post-Apocalyptic | Order Counters | |||||
Wadim Kashin | Science Fiction | Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game | ||||||
Guillem H. Pongiluppi | Simultaneous Action Selection | |||||||
Vladimir Motsar | Variable Player Powers | |||||||
Variable Set-up | ||||||||
For the full profile of the selected game, click on the links in the table or go to https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/302413
For each of the predictions above, I used models that were trained on historical boardgamegeek data in order to predict the selected game. How did the model(s) arrive at their predictions? The following plot displays Shapley values to indicate what features were most influential for the model’s predictions. Anything in blue increased the model’s predictions, anything in red decreased the model’s predictions.
What games are similar to Steamwatchers? I compare the selected game to every other game on boardgamegeek based on its mechanics, playing time, complexity, and game type. The tables below display the games which had the most similar data to Steamwatchers. The reported similarity is the cosine similarity between the selected game and all other games published before 2021.
This similarity score ranges from -1 to 1, where similarity of 1 indicates that games are exactly identical (a game will have a score of 1 with itself).
Note: This analysis does not look at a game’s ratings on BGG, publisher, artist, or designer - it focuses on finding similar games based on how they play, not how they are rated or by their theme.
The table below displays games with the most similar data to Steamwatchers. Click on a game’s ID or Name to go straight to its profile on boardgamegeek.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 1.00 | 5.69 | 7.69 | 3.23 | 218 | ||
1 | 1992 | 0.86 | 5.61 | 7.71 | 2.14 | 138 | ||
2 | 2018 | 0.82 | 5.53 | 8.14 | 3.33 | 31 | ||
3 | 1982 | 0.80 | 5.51 | 6.19 | 1.80 | 41 | ||
4 | 2019 | 0.79 | 6.57 | 7.68 | 3.69 | 2,357 | ||
5 | 2016 | 0.79 | 5.61 | 7.54 | 2.67 | 137 | ||
6 | 1982 | 0.78 | 6.08 | 7.15 | 3.29 | 1,025 | ||
7 | 1993 | 0.77 | 5.51 | 6.07 | 2.00 | 31 | ||
8 | 2020 | 0.77 | 5.66 | 7.90 | 2.88 | 191 | ||
9 | 2012 | 0.76 | 7.64 | 7.81 | 3.80 | 38,200 | ||
10 | 2020 | 0.75 | 8.27 | 8.64 | 3.60 | 19,245 | ||
11 | 1993 | 0.75 | 5.55 | 8.70 | 3.50 | 31 | ||
12 | 1998 | 0.75 | 5.99 | 6.51 | 3.50 | 2,333 | ||
13 | 2018 | 0.75 | 5.82 | 8.09 | 3.44 | 348 | ||
14 | 2011 | 0.75 | 5.98 | 6.98 | 2.94 | 1,001 | ||
15 | 1985 | 0.74 | 5.52 | 6.27 | 3.00 | 44 | ||
16 | 1973 | 0.73 | 5.59 | 6.30 | 3.36 | 261 | ||
17 | 2014 | Sword & Spear: Wargames Rules for Ancient and Medieval Battles | 0.72 | 5.54 | 7.67 | 2.67 | 42 | |
18 | 1984 | 0.72 | 5.53 | 6.67 | 2.75 | 62 | ||
19 | 1980 | 0.72 | 5.61 | 6.53 | 2.39 | 257 | ||
20 | 2011 | 0.72 | 8.14 | 8.52 | 4.19 | 16,255 | ||
21 | 2013 | 0.71 | 5.55 | 8.70 | 2.50 | 35 | ||
22 | 2009 | 0.71 | 7.14 | 7.24 | 2.35 | 65,690 | ||
23 | 2019 | 0.71 | 6.05 | 8.24 | 2.38 | 490 | ||
24 | 2010 | 0.71 | 6.85 | 7.64 | 3.90 | 3,307 | ||
25 | 2017 | 0.71 | 8.14 | 8.37 | 4.04 | 34,960 |
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What games are similar to Steamwatchers while also being highly rated by the boardgamegeek community? In this table I multiply every neighboring game’s similarity score by its GeekRating. The resulting score is an attempt to balance these two quantities.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Score | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 5.69 | 1.00 | 5.69 | 7.69 | 3.23 | 218 | ||
1 | 2020 | 6.22 | 0.75 | 8.27 | 8.64 | 3.60 | 19,245 | ||
2 | 2011 | 5.84 | 0.72 | 8.14 | 8.52 | 4.19 | 16,255 | ||
3 | 2012 | 5.78 | 0.76 | 7.64 | 7.81 | 3.80 | 38,200 | ||
4 | 2017 | 5.75 | 0.71 | 8.14 | 8.37 | 4.04 | 34,960 | ||
5 | 2016 | 5.57 | 0.68 | 8.17 | 8.42 | 3.73 | 26,583 | ||
6 | 2017 | 5.49 | 0.65 | 8.49 | 8.73 | 3.87 | 50,014 | ||
7 | 2016 | 5.18 | 0.65 | 7.93 | 8.16 | 3.49 | 34,915 | ||
8 | 2019 | 5.17 | 0.79 | 6.57 | 7.68 | 3.69 | 2,357 | ||
9 | 2004 | 5.16 | 0.70 | 7.38 | 7.56 | 2.27 | 27,305 | ||
10 | 2012 | 5.14 | 0.69 | 7.40 | 7.66 | 3.21 | 23,953 | ||
11 | 2016 | 5.11 | 0.68 | 7.51 | 7.81 | 2.88 | 15,285 | ||
12 | 2009 | 5.07 | 0.71 | 7.14 | 7.24 | 2.35 | 65,690 | ||
13 | 2017 | 4.94 | 0.70 | 7.08 | 8.42 | 3.04 | 2,819 | ||
14 | 2010 | 4.83 | 0.71 | 6.85 | 7.64 | 3.90 | 3,307 | ||
15 | 1992 | 4.82 | 0.86 | 5.61 | 7.71 | 2.14 | 138 | ||
16 | 2009 | 4.75 | 0.67 | 7.06 | 7.50 | 2.48 | 6,822 | ||
17 | 2012 | 4.74 | 0.66 | 7.14 | 7.62 | 3.68 | 7,618 | ||
18 | 1982 | 4.72 | 0.78 | 6.08 | 7.15 | 3.29 | 1,025 | ||
19 | 2015 | 4.68 | 0.64 | 7.29 | 7.66 | 2.50 | 14,109 | ||
20 | 2017 | 4.63 | 0.69 | 6.74 | 7.53 | 2.61 | 2,936 | ||
21 | 2016 | 4.62 | 0.68 | 6.77 | 7.17 | 3.27 | 6,345 | ||
22 | 2018 | 4.53 | 0.70 | 6.51 | 8.13 | 2.85 | 1,204 | ||
23 | 2018 | 4.51 | 0.82 | 5.53 | 8.14 | 3.33 | 31 | ||
24 | 1998 | 4.51 | 0.75 | 5.99 | 6.51 | 3.50 | 2,333 | ||
25 | 2015 | 4.47 | 0.63 | 7.12 | 7.83 | 3.15 | 4,980 |
I first ran a dimension reduction method (PCA) to identify the main points of variation for games on BGG. The first 25 components explained roughly 50% of the overall variation in the dataset, so I computed the cosine similarity between every game’s score on these 25 components.
The following plot shows every game on BGG plotted on the first two principal components of variation. I then highlight where the selected game and its nearest neighbors fall on these first two components.
Similarity scores are based on 25 principal components - the next table displays the selected game and its neighbors profiles on each of these components.
What are these components? The following plot shows which features contribute the most to each component.